Fire-escape



UNITED STATES l PATENT OFFICE.

SIMON B. PARKER, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

FIRE-ESCAPE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 382,550, dated MayV 8, 1888.

Application iiled March 27, 1888. Serial No. 268,657. (No model.)

To all whom/.it may concern.:

Be it known that I, SIMON B. PARKER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State ofl wholly constructed of metal wire of suicient strength to support the weight of the person or persons descending from a building; and it consists in the details of construction, substantially as shown in the drawings, and hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings the several sections of wire which form the links of the escape are of suitable length and bent to form rings A to serve as hand-holds; also as supports for the feet of the person. The wire is twisted upon itself to form a twisted shank, B,

the ends or extremities of the wire being bent to form hooks C, for 'engaging therewith the 30 ring of the next section, thus forming a continuous chain or-rope of suitable length and of great strength. The upper one of the sections of Wire is bent to form an eye, D,through y which, the upper one of the rings pass, and is 3 5 also twisted to form a shank, E, and has hooks F or other means for suspending it from the window of the house. The twisted 'portion of the wire aids in giving the device great strength, and the'manner of connecting the 4o sections gives to it the required iiexibility.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new,'and desire to secu-re by Letters Patent, is

A fire-escape consisting of a series of links i 5 or sections formed of wire and bent to form rings A, twisted shanks B, and hooks C, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence 5o of two witnesses.

SIMON B. PARKER. 

